- Look up
yakkha in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Yakkha may
refer to:
Yakkha people, an
ethnic group of
South Asia
Yakkha language, a Sino-Tibetan language...
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disappearance of the
Yakkha language. The
Yakkhas practice the
Kirati religion of
nature worship.
There are 32
family names (Thar) in the
Yakkhas. Each Thar also...
- Lanka, a
local po****tion is
given the term
Yakkhas.
Prince Vijaya encountered the
royalty of the
yakkhas' queen, Kuveni, in her
capital of
Lanka pura...
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Yakkha (also
erroneously spelled as Yakha) is a
language spoken in
parts of Nepal,
Darjeeling district and Sikkim. The
Yakkha-speaking
villages are located...
- the
yakkhas to the
island of
Giridipa during an
earlier visit to Lanka, but
Vijaya later encounters yakshas on
Lanka and a
yakkhini (a
female yakkha) named...
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bestow Kingship on my Lord (Vijaya)' and thus 'all the
Yakkhas must be slain, for (else) the
Yakkhas will slay me, for it was
through me that men have taken...
- landing).
After landing in Tambapaṇṇī,
Vijaya met
Kuveni the
queen of the
Yakkhas, who was
disguised as a
beautiful woman but was
really a
yakkhini named...
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sources say nine
million years). Vessavaṇa has the
authority to
grant the
yakkhas particular areas (e.g., a lake) to protect, and
these are
usually ****igned...
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yakkhas and yakkhīs in Pali (yakṣas and yakṣīs in Sanskrit) in
early Buddhist texts is an
attestation of the
worship of
these beings done at
yakkha cetiyas...
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array of
ethnic groups within the Himalayas,
including the Rai, Limbu,
Yakkha,
Sunuwar and
other related communities.
These groups have
their own unique...
